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Career Details :: Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons
Description
Build or repair furnaces, kilns, cupolas, boilers, converters, ladles, soaking pits, ovens, etc., using refractory materials.
Experience
No previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a general office clerk even if he/she has never worked in an office before.
Education
These occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate. Some may require a formal training course to obtain a license.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
Tasks
- Spreads mortar on stopper head and rod, using trowel, and slides brick sleeves over rod to form refractory jacket.
- Bolts sections of wooden mold together, using wrench, and lines mold with paper to prevent adherence of clay to mold.
- Mixes specified amounts of sand, clay, mortar powder, and water to form refractory clay or mortar, using shovel or mixing machine.
- Drills holes in furnace wall, bolts overlapping layers of plastic to walls, and hammers surface to compress layers into solid sheets.
- Disassembles mold and cuts, chips, and smoothes clay structures, such as floaters, drawbars, and L-blocks, using square rule and hand tools.
- Dumps and tamps clay in mold, using tamping tool.
- Climbs scaffolding with hose and sprays surfaces of cupola with refractory mixture, using spray equipment.
- Installs clay structures in melting tanks and drawing kilns to control flow and temperature of molten glass, using hoists and hand tools.
- Removes worn or damaged plastic block refractory lining of furnace, using hand tools.
- Chips slag from lining of ladle, or entire lining when beyond repair, using hammer and chisel.
- Transfers clay structures to curing ovens, melting tanks, and drawing kilns, using electric forklift truck.
- Tightens locknuts holding assembly together, spreads mortar on jacket to seal sleeve joints, and dries mortar in oven.
- Installs preformed metal scaffolding in interior of cupola, using hand tools.
- Measures furnace wall, and cuts required number of sheets from plastic block, using saw.
- Fastens stopper head to rod with metal pin to assemble refractory stopper used to plug pouring nozzles of steel ladles.
- Dries and bakes new lining by placing inverted lining over burner, building fire in ladle, or by using blowtorch.
- Relines or repairs ladle and pouring spout with refractory clay, using trowel.
Related Careers
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- Helpers, Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Hoist and Winch Operators
- Metal-Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Operators and Tenders
- Patternmakers, Metal and Plastic
- Press and Press Brake Machine Setters and Set-Up Operators, Metal and Plastic
- Welders, Production
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Repairing & Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Consequence of Error
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Frustrating Circumstances
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
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